The road to college graduation, first jobs, and independent living poses multiple challenges for young adults with ADHD. Part three of our 'ADHD Ages and Stages' series provides strategies for the most common academic, organizational, and social struggles.
Leaving home for college. Organizing a gap year. Applying and interviewing for a first job. Adulting. Young adulthood is one big life event after another, each one needing the following developmental skills and each one impacted by ADHD symptoms like executive dysfunction:must communicate their needs to sometimes reluctant professors. New employees must be able to request performance-enhancing modifications, like frequent progress check-ins or telecommuting options.
lay out assignments on a master calendar, and look at the entire semester. When are the major tests? When is the midterm? When are papers due? How to fit in parties and the social aspects of college? It all goes back to that basic advice — make a plan.Avoid an all-or-nothing approach; lay out achievable daily intentions instead. Try external motivators, like using a “4. Daunting or uninteresting tasks will be difficult to initiate.
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